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mom kids working-parents
Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?' Ray Lewis
mom war home
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. Thomas Friedman
mom mother memories
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me. Thomas A. Edison
mom uncles dad
My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I remember saying to my mom and dad even then that I was going to play in the NFL, and buy them a house and a car. Thomas Jones
mom brother eating-together
I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference. Thomas Keller
mom kids parent
In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. Rebecca Lobo
mom who-i-am guy
My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core. Vin Diesel
mom brother new-york
When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely. Viggo Mortensen
mom real grandmother
My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me. Victoria Clark
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past stuff helping
That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help. Tommy Lee
past thinking ideas
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. Tommy Lee Jones
past doors feelings
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos. Tom Wolfe
past years done
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years. Steven Spielberg
past average years
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago. Steven Johnson
past sight darkness
Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness. Steven Erikson
past banjos capture
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. Steve Martin
past way remember
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it. Steve Berry
names late pollock
In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of. Lee Krasner